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by A’raelle Flynn-Bolden
Dir. Celia Mandela Rivera
MONUMENTS is a 3 part play that champions care and community in the face of unyielding oppression. The play puts us in the room with Lucy, Anarcha and Betsey, three enslaved Black women who endured un-anesthetized experimentation at the hands of the “father” of gynecology, J. Marion Sims. The play inverts the legacy of of Sims and illuminates the neglected history of the largely unnamed multitude of Black women whose pain shaped the foundation of modern medicine.
March 25, 2024 @ 7PM
Boston Court Pasadena
The Marjorie Branson Performance Space
70 N Mentor Ave, Pasadena, CA 91106